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Fight to save and relocate Iowa’s historic Red Bridge continues

Jasper County Museum Executive Director Joe Otto wants to save the historic Red Bridge, the last truss bridge of its kind in Jasper County, Iowa, by having it relocated from Reasnor to Colfax at Quarry Springs Park. The bridge, which was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1998, was built in 1892 […]

January 2, 2018

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Madison County (Iowa) receives grant to rebuild burned covered bridge

A grant has been awarded to rebuild the Madison County covered bridge that was destroyed by three teenage arsonists on April 15. According to the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs told the Madison County Chamber of Commerce that it would receive $275,770 to rebuild the famous Cedar Covered Bridge in Winterset. […]

December 28, 2017

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Rainbow Bridge in Nova Scotia closed due to truss span failure

The Rainbow Bridge on Highway 2 outside of Amherst, Nova Scotia, was closed to traffic on December 8, after two bottom chord members on the truss span failed, causing the structure to sag, the Amherst News Citizen-Record/Cumberland News Now reports. The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal discovered the failure and immediately closed the bridge […]

December 27, 2017

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Large floating crane lifts pieces of Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge into place

As a part of the new Johnson Street Bridge Replacement Project, the largest crane barge on the west coast of North America, known as the Dynamic Beast, was floated under the existing bridge in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada’s Upper Harbor on Friday, December 8, to lift and place large pieces of the new bridge’s lifting mechanism, CBC […]

December 25, 2017

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Historic Mont. bridge damaged by overweight tractor trailer

The 120-year-old Dearborn River High Bridge southwest of Augusta, Montana, was closed until further notice after it was damaged by a tractor trailer, the Independence Record reports. The 251-foot bridge, which carries Secondary Highway 434 across the North Fork of the Dearborn River, was constructed in 1897 at a cost of $9,000. The decking and railing […]

December 20, 2017

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Fla. bridge damaged by Hurricane Irma to reopen

Residents in Clay County, Florida, have got their bridge back after Hurricane Irma damaged it. The bridge on County Road 218 southwest of Jacksonville was closed September 19 when inspection divers found safety problems, according to The Florida Times-Union. The newspaper reports that the repaired bridge will reopen December 15, ahead of the originally scheduled […]

December 19, 2017

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Tractor crash closes another historic bridge in this Indiana county

Another bridge in Boone County, Indiana, has been closed because of damage by farm equipment. This time, though, the tractor driver owned up to the mistake. A man was driving his John Deere tractor down Holiday Road on December 2 pulling a ripper when he realized too late that the ripper was too wide for […]

December 15, 2017

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Arlington Memorial Bridge to receive $227 million for repairs

The National Park Service (NPS) announced the approval of a $227 million project to repair and rehabilitate the 85-year-old Arlington Memorial Bridge. According to The Washington Post, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and members of the District and Virginia congressional delegation issued a press release stating that the contract secures funding to repair the aging bridge, which was determined […]

December 11, 2017

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Opening of Maine’s Sarah Mildred Long Bridge delayed again

The projected opening of the new Sarah Mildred Long Bridge has been postponed again, possibly until late December 2017. According to the Bangor Daily News, Maine Department of Transportation Press Secretary Ted Talbot said project administrators are working with its general contractor, Cianbro Corp., to identify what has caused the opening to be delayed several […]

December 8, 2017

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Pre-cast concrete key to Sarah Mildred Long Bridge construction

Engineers believe the $158.5 million Sarah Mildred Long Bridge project, connecting Portsmouth, N.H., with Kittery, Maine, may be the first vertical-lift bridge to use precast-concrete segmental towers, the Engineering News-Record reports. Construction of the new bridge carrying U.S. Route 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River began in 2015. The bridge is slated to open by […]

December 5, 2017

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Iowa DOT says I-74 bridge project on track, with parts ahead of schedule

During the first of many project updates, the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) told the Davenport City Council that all parts of the new Interstate 74 bridge project spanning the Mississippi River are on track or ahead of schedule, even though it doesn’t look like much is going on, the Quad-City Times reports. Most […]

December 5, 2017

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New I-15 interchange near Las Vegas to reduce congestion, noise

A new interchange to Interstate 15 near Las Vegas is being built to relieve traffic and reduce traffic noise for nearby residents. The $33.7 million interchange at Starr Avenue will include six lanes, landscaped medians and bike lanes and is scheduled to be completed in mid-2019. The project completes construction of Starr Avenue between Las […]

December 4, 2017